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THE SWALLOW 



Then begins another training — the nest- 

 lings are taught to fly. Let us look on 

 here also. We see both of the old birds 



giving this lesson 

 to their young. 

 Notice how they 

 cheer on their 

 ■{' I " pupils with their 



voices; how they offer them 

 1 food a little way off, then slowly 

 move it farther back as the young- 

 sters approach to take it; how 

 gently and anxiously they push 

 them out of the nest; how they 

 play around before them in the air in 

 order to encourage them with the sight 

 of help always at hand; and finally, 

 how they carry on the lesson with such 

 expressive chatter which sounds like caresses,, 

 exhortation, reproof, and applause all in one. 

 As the summer grows warm, our little 

 guests, who dislike intense heat as well as 

 severe cold, break out into their first gay 



